Ariolimacidae is a

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

of air-breathing land

slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a smal ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s in the superfamily

Arionoidea Arionoidea is a taxonomic group, superfamily of air-breathing land slugs, shell-less terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. Families Families within the superfamily Arionoidea include: * Arionidae * Anadenidae * Ariolimacidae * Bin ...

(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Subfamilies and genera

The family Ariolimacidae consists of the two subfamilies: * Ariolimacinae Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898 * Zacoleinae Webb, 1959Webb. (14 February) 1959. Gastropodia, 1(3):22. Genera in the family Ariolimacidae include: Ariolimacinae * '' Anadenulus'' Cockerell, 1890 * ''

Ariolimax Banana slugs are North American terrestrial slugs comprising the genus ''Ariolimax''. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ariolimax Mörch, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p ...

'' Mörch, 1859 -

banana slug Banana slugs are North American terrestrial slugs comprising the genus ''Ariolimax''. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ariolimax Mörch, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p= ...

- the type genus of the family Ariolimacidae * '' Hesperarion'' Simroth, 1891 * '' Magnipelta'' Pilsbry, 1953 * '' Meadarion'' Pilsbry, 1948 * ''

Prophysaon ''Prophysaon'', common name taildropper slugs, is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariolimacidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Prophysaon Bland & W.G. Binne ...

'' Bland & W.G. Binney, 1873 * '' Udosarx'' Webb, 1959 Zacoleinae * '' Zacoleus'' Pilsbry, 1903 - the type genus of the subfamily Zacoleinae ;Genera brought into synonymy: * ''Aphallarion'' Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1896: synonym of ''Ariolimax'' Mörch, 1859 * ''Limacarion'' J.G. Cooper, 1879: synonym of ''Prophysaon'' Bland & W.G. Binney, 1873 * ''Phenacarion'' Cockerell, 1890: synonym of ''Prophysaon'' Bland & W.G. Binney, 1873

References

* Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.

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